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*Members of the industry and their employees paid $3.31 billion in federal, state and local taxes. This does not include state and local sales taxes or excise taxes that may apply for specific retail purchases which are estimated to total $1.67 billion.

*[https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Vapor-Industry-Economic-Impact-Study-by-Dunham-Associates-2019-Updated.pdf Original link to the study]

===2019: [https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Dunham-Economic-Impact-of-Flavor-Ban-11-21-19.pdf The Economic Impact of a Ban on Flavored Vapor Products ]===

*The vapor product industry is an important part of the US economy. About $9.2 billion in vapor sales lead to 166,000 jobs and $24.5 billion in economic activity. About 58,430 of these jobs are held by people working for the over 13,480 independent retail vape shops located across the country.

*Based on independent vapor industry data, flavored vapor products account for about 85.7 percent of sales volume. Therefore, a ban on all flavored vapor products would:

** Cause sales to fall by about $8.4 billion and the overall economy would see a $22.4 billion hit.

** Eliminate over 151,850 jobs.

*Press Release: [https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/New-Economic-Analysis-Demonstrates-Significant-Negative-Impact-of-a-National-Flavor-Ban50808.pdf NEW ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DEMONSTRATES SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE IMPACT OF A NATIONAL FLAVOR BAN ]

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=Smoking Cessation / Switching=

===Year?: [https://www.ncsct.co.uk/library/view/pdf/Working%20with%20vape%20shops%2002.10.18%20update.pdf Working with vape shops: A guide for commissioners and stop smoking services]===

*Most staff in these shops are vapers, having stopped smoking themselves, and they are generally keen to help others become ex-smokers.

*[https://www.ncsct.co.uk/publications/working_with_vape_shops Alternative link]

===2024: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38685876/ Developing a vape shop-based smoking cessation intervention: a Delphi study]===

*"There was consensus that the service should comprise both product (98%) and behavioural support (97%)...Delivering vape-shop based smoking cessation interventions could help to maximise the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for quitting smoking."

===2023: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38069625/ How should a vape shop-based smoking cessation intervention be delivered? A qualitative study]===

*The results suggest that the intervention should be delivered by vape shop workers with mandatory training with the support of stop smoking service providers...The intervention should comprise both technical guidance on using a vape and behavioural support to prevent a return to smoking.

===2021: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/23/4/756/5936121 Vape Shop Employees: Do They Act as Smoking Cessation Counselors? ]===

*Most vape shop employees provide advice to customers who desire to quit cigarette smoking and initiate electronic cigarette use. Approximately 85% of employees had quit cigarettes by switching to e-cigarettes.

===2019: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/5/724/htm A Comparison of E-Cigarette Use Patterns and Smoking Cessation Behavior among Vapers by Primary Place of Purchase]===

*Among those smoking 12 months prior to the survey, smoking cessation rates were higher for vape shop and internet customers than for retail customers, even though retail customers were more likely to use FDA-approved smoking cessation aids.

===2018: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/2/297 A Qualitative Exploration of the Role of Vape Shop Environments in Supporting Smoking Abstinence]===

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*Vape shops can provide effective behavioural support to quitters to maintain smoking abstinence. Health professionals could capitalise on this through partnership working with shops, to ensure best outcomes for clients wanting to use e-cigarettes to quit smoking.

===2018 (Report): [https://www.ncsct.co.uk/usr/pub/Working%20with%20vape%20shops%2002.10.18%20update.pdf Working with vape shops]===

*UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT)

*This guide covers:

**How can vape shops support stop smoking services?

**How can stop smoking services work with vape shops?

**What does ‘reputable vape shop’ mean?

**Can vape shops be trusted?

**Are vape shops owned by or associated with the tobacco industry?

===2018: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/20/8/977/4061315?redirectedFrom=fulltext Advice From Former-Smoking E-Cigarette Users to Current Smokers on How to Use E-Cigarettes as Part of an Attempt to Quit Smoking]===

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*[https://sci-hub.do/10.1093/ntr/ntx176# PDF Version]

===2018: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/2/297 A Qualitative Exploration of the Role of Vape Shop Environments in Supporting Smoking Abstinence]===

*At an individual level, shops can provide a supportive environment. Shops also provided ongoing support to reduce risk of smoking lapse.

*At an interpersonal level, shops can offer friendly personable service. For some vapers, shops also provided an opportunity for social interaction, acting as a community group.

*At a structural level, shops provide a competitive environment, responding to legislative changes.

*Furthermore, vape shops provide opportunity to those who do not wish to stop smoking to try vaping and perhaps eventually stop smoking.

*Vape shops can provide effective behavioural support to quitters to maintain smoking abstinence. Health professionals could capitalise on this through partnership working with shops, to ensure best outcomes for clients wanting to use e-cigarettes to quit smoking.

===2018: [https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13690-018-0307-z A qualitative assessment of business perspectives and tactics of tobacco and vape shop retailers in three communities in Orange County, CA, 2015–2016]===

*Tobacco shops’ reasons for carrying e-cigarettes were business oriented... In comparison, vape shops opened because of the owner’s positive experiences with e-cigarettes and belief in the potential of e-cigarettes to help people quit or reduce smoking.

===2018: [https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-5467-9#Sec20 Vape shops: who uses them and what do they do?]===

*The majority of vape shop customers are vapers who have quit smoking. Shop staff play a central role in providing customers with product information, and many provide smoking cessation advice.

===2016: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877178/ A Qualitative Study of Vape Shop Operators' Perceptions of Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarette Use and Attitude Toward Their Potential Regulation by the US Food and Drug Administration, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, or North Carolina, 2015]===

*Most owners were former smokers and used ENDS to quit. Vape shop owners are in a unique position to serve as frontline consumer educators.

*Vape shop owners perceived ENDS to be less harmful and more economical than conventional cigarettes and indicated that most of their customers used ENDS as a smoking cessation tool

===2016: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382868/ A Pilot Study of Retail ‘Vape Shops’ in the San Francisco Bay Area]===

*The intensive engagement with customers over time provides social support for quitting and practical advice, both of which are elements of recommended smoking cessation counseling.

===2016: [http://www.tobaccopreventioncessation.com/A-Dollars-and-Sense-Exploration-of-r-nVape-Shop-Spending-and-E-cigarette-Use,67435,0,2.html A Dollars and “Sense” Exploration of Vape Shop Spending and E-cigarette Use]===

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*Mod use and intention to use e-cigs as a cessation device were significantly associated with vape shop spending.

*Customers who spent more than $50/month used lower levels of nicotine (mg/ml) (p=0.003) but a greater quantity of e-liquid (ml/month).

===2015: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535370/ Counseling in Vape Shops: A Survey of Vape Shop Managers in Switzerland]===

*Vape-shop managers explain how they successfully switched from smoking to vaping and help customers individually find the right combination of device, e-liquid flavor, and nicotine concentration.

===2015: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25675943/ Biochemically verified smoking cessation and vaping beliefs among vape store customers]===

*Among vapor store customers in the USA who use ENDS to stop smoking, vaping longer, using newer-generation devices and using non-tobacco and non-menthol flavored e-liquid appear to be associated with higher rates of smoking cessation.

===2015: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/4/3428 Quit and Smoking Reduction Rates in Vape Shop Consumers: A Prospective 12-Month Survey]===

*"Findings: Retention rate was elevated, with 69% of participants attending their final follow-up visit. At 12 month, 40.8% subjects could be classified as quitters, 25.4% as reducers and 33.8% as failures. Switching from standard refillables (initial choice) to more advanced devices (MODs) was observed in this study (from 8.5% at baseline to 18.4% at 12 month) as well as a trend in decreasing the e-liquid nicotine strength, with more participants adopting low nicotine strength (from 49.3% at baseline to 57.1% at 12 month). Conclusions: We have found that smokers purchasing e-cigarettes from vape shops with professional advice and support can achieve high success rates."

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=Articles, Blogs, Op-Eds, etc=

===2024: Article: [https://filtermag.org/vape-shop-veterans-va/ In My Vape Shop, I Learned How the VA Lets Veterans Down]===

*Over the next two weeks, Bob brought in nine of his fellow vets to get my help to quit smoking. They called their vapes “puffing machines.” They’d thought they were too old to benefit from quitting smoking, but as the VA rightly told them, it is never too late. They were surprised to find themselves feeling better once they quit.

**Source: Kim "Skip" Murray, ''Filter Magazine''

===2022: [https://medium.com/the-great-vape-debate/the-unrelenting-assault-on-vaping-is-taking-a-toll-803d3926dbee The unrelenting assault on vaping is taking a toll]===

===2022: [https://filtermag.org/small-vape-shop-shut/ Popular Advocate Forced to Close Her Small-Town Vape Shop]===

===2022: [https://~~filtermag~~.~~org~~/~~small~~-~~vape~~-~~shop~~-~~shut~~/ ~~Popular Advocate Forced to Close Her Small~~-~~Town Vape Shop~~]===

===2022: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/op-ed-celebrating-businesses-that-have-helped-reduce-the-tobacco-burden/article_51958b90-e1fa-11ec-91d0-4fc3f4df9720.html Op-Ed: Celebrating businesses that have helped reduce the tobacco burden]===

===2022: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/op-ed-president-biden-should-use-small-business-week-to-save-lives/article_a2828028-cb28-11ec-a5dd-0f29a3850ddd.html Op-Ed: President Biden should use Small Business Week to save lives]===

===~~2022~~: [https://~~www~~.~~thecentersquare.com~~/~~opinion/op~~-ed-~~celebrating-businesses~~-that-~~have~~-~~helped-reduce~~-the-~~tobacco-burden~~/~~article_51958b90~~-~~e1fa-11ec-91d0-4fc3f4df9720~~.~~html Op-Ed: Celebrating businesses that have helped reduce the tobacco burden]===~~

===2021 (Op-Ed): [https://filtermag.org/vape-taxes-increase-smoking/ To Increase Smoking Rates Among Young Adults, Keep Hiking Vape Taxes]===

*Of eight states that had e-cigarette taxes prior to 2019, seven saw an increase in proportions of young adult smokers after their state e-cigarette tax went into effect. California had a 34 percent increase in people aged 18-24 who smoked after the passage of an e-cigarette tax. Deleware's increase was 48.6 percent. Pennsylvania passed a 40% wholesale tax on vapor products, which closed 1/3 of the vape shops in that state and increased smoking in the 18-24 year old age group by 19 percent. Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota and West Virginia also say increases in smoking in young adults after passing taxes on vapor products.

===2020: Article: [https://filtermag.org/native-american-reservations-new-york-vape-shops/ Native American Reservations a Haven for New York Vape Shops]===

*New York State’s 20 percent excise tax on vapor products and nearly 9 percent sales tax also do not apply to the Shinnecock and other tribes. Essentially, Silva said, patrons can spend almost 30 percent less than they normally spend, and nobody has to worry about breaking the law.

===~~2022~~: [https://www.~~thecentersquare~~.com/~~opinion~~/~~op-ed-president-biden-should-use-small-business-week-to-save-lives~~/~~article_a2828028~~-~~cb28~~-~~11ec~~-~~a5dd-0f29a3850ddd~~.html ~~Op-Ed: President Biden should use Small Business Week~~ to ~~save lives~~]===

===2017: Article: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/health/smokers-vaping-ecigarettes-elderly.html Some Older Smokers Turn to Vaping. That May Not Be a Bad Idea.]===

*A retired secretary in her 70s, she’s often the oldest customer in the shop. Not that she cares. What matters is that after ignoring decades of doctors’ warnings and smoking two packs a day, she hasn’t lit up a conventional cigarette in four years and four months...But while the proportion of Americans who smoke continues to decrease — down to 15.1 percent in 2015 — the decline has stalled among older adults.

*[https://archive.is/EInlT Archived Link]

**Source: Paula Span, ''The New York Times''

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 *Members of the industry and their employees paid $3.31 billion in federal, state and local taxes. This does not include state and local sales taxes or excise taxes that may apply for specific retail purchases which are estimated to total $1.67 billion.
 *[https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Vapor-Industry-Economic-Impact-Study-by-Dunham-Associates-2019-Updated.pdf Original link to the study]
+===2019: [https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Dunham-Economic-Impact-of-Flavor-Ban-11-21-19.pdf The Economic Impact of a Ban on Flavored Vapor Products ]===
+*The vapor product industry is an important part of the US economy. About $9.2 billion in vapor sales lead to 166,000 jobs and $24.5 billion in economic activity. About 58,430 of these jobs are held by people working for the over 13,480 independent retail vape shops located across the country.
+*Based on independent vapor industry data, flavored vapor products account for about 85.7 percent of sales volume. Therefore, a ban on all flavored vapor products would:
+** Cause sales to fall by about $8.4 billion and the overall economy would see a $22.4 billion hit.
+** Eliminate over 151,850 jobs.
+*Press Release: [https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/New-Economic-Analysis-Demonstrates-Significant-Negative-Impact-of-a-National-Flavor-Ban50808.pdf NEW ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DEMONSTRATES SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE IMPACT OF A NATIONAL FLAVOR BAN ]
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 =Smoking Cessation / Switching=
+===Year?: [https://www.ncsct.co.uk/library/view/pdf/Working%20with%20vape%20shops%2002.10.18%20update.pdf Working with vape shops: A guide for commissioners and stop smoking services]===
+*Most staff in these shops are vapers, having stopped smoking themselves, and they are generally keen to help others become ex-smokers.
+*[https://www.ncsct.co.uk/publications/working_with_vape_shops Alternative link]
+===2024: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38685876/ Developing a vape shop-based smoking cessation intervention: a Delphi study]===
+*"There was consensus that the service should comprise both product (98%) and behavioural support (97%)...Delivering vape-shop based smoking cessation interventions could help to maximise the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for quitting smoking."
+===2023: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38069625/ How should a vape shop-based smoking cessation intervention be delivered? A qualitative study]===
+*The results suggest that the intervention should be delivered by vape shop workers with mandatory training with the support of stop smoking service providers...The intervention should comprise both technical guidance on using a vape and behavioural support to prevent a return to smoking.
+===2021: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/23/4/756/5936121 Vape Shop Employees: Do They Act as Smoking Cessation Counselors? ]===
+*Most vape shop employees provide advice to customers who desire to quit cigarette smoking and initiate electronic cigarette use. Approximately 85% of employees had quit cigarettes by switching to e-cigarettes.
 ===2019: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/5/724/htm A Comparison of E-Cigarette Use Patterns and Smoking Cessation Behavior among Vapers by Primary Place of Purchase]===
 *Among those smoking 12 months prior to the survey, smoking cessation rates were higher for vape shop and internet customers than for retail customers, even though retail customers were more likely to use FDA-approved smoking cessation aids.
 ===2018: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/2/297 A Qualitative Exploration of the Role of Vape Shop Environments in Supporting Smoking Abstinence]===
@@ Line 91: / Line 111: @@
 *Vape shops can provide effective behavioural support to quitters to maintain smoking abstinence. Health professionals could capitalise on this through partnership working with shops, to ensure best outcomes for clients wanting to use e-cigarettes to quit smoking.
+===2018 (Report): [https://www.ncsct.co.uk/usr/pub/Working%20with%20vape%20shops%2002.10.18%20update.pdf Working with vape shops]===
+*UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT)
+*This guide covers:
+**How can vape shops support stop smoking services?
+**How can stop smoking services work with vape shops?
+**What does ‘reputable vape shop’ mean?
+**Can vape shops be trusted?
+**Are vape shops owned by or associated with the tobacco industry?
 ===2018: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/20/8/977/4061315?redirectedFrom=fulltext Advice From Former-Smoking E-Cigarette Users to Current Smokers on How to Use E-Cigarettes as Part of an Attempt to Quit Smoking]===
@@ Line 96: / Line 124: @@
 *[https://sci-hub.do/10.1093/ntr/ntx176# PDF Version]
+===2018: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/2/297 A Qualitative Exploration of the Role of Vape Shop Environments in Supporting Smoking Abstinence]===
+*At an individual level, shops can provide a supportive environment. Shops also provided ongoing support to reduce risk of smoking lapse.
+*At an interpersonal level, shops can offer friendly personable service. For some vapers, shops also provided an opportunity for social interaction, acting as a community group.
+*At a structural level, shops provide a competitive environment, responding to legislative changes.
+*Furthermore, vape shops provide opportunity to those who do not wish to stop smoking to try vaping and perhaps eventually stop smoking.
+*Vape shops can provide effective behavioural support to quitters to maintain smoking abstinence. Health professionals could capitalise on this through partnership working with shops, to ensure best outcomes for clients wanting to use e-cigarettes to quit smoking.
 ===2018: [https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13690-018-0307-z A qualitative assessment of business perspectives and tactics of tobacco and vape shop retailers in three communities in Orange County, CA, 2015–2016]===
 *Tobacco shops’ reasons for carrying e-cigarettes were business oriented... In comparison, vape shops opened because of the owner’s positive experiences with e-cigarettes and belief in the potential of e-cigarettes to help people quit or reduce smoking.
+===2018: [https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-5467-9#Sec20 Vape shops: who uses them and what do they do?]===
+*The majority of vape shop customers are vapers who have quit smoking. Shop staff play a central role in providing customers with product information, and many provide smoking cessation advice.
 ===2016: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877178/ A Qualitative Study of Vape Shop Operators' Perceptions of Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarette Use and Attitude Toward Their Potential Regulation by the US Food and Drug Administration, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, or North Carolina, 2015]===
 *Most owners were former smokers and used ENDS to quit. Vape shop owners are in a unique position to serve as frontline consumer educators.
 *Vape shop owners perceived ENDS to be less harmful and more economical than conventional cigarettes and indicated that most of their customers used ENDS as a smoking cessation tool
 ===2016: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382868/ A Pilot Study of Retail ‘Vape Shops’ in the San Francisco Bay Area]===
 *The intensive engagement with customers over time provides social support for quitting and practical advice, both of which are elements of recommended smoking cessation counseling.
 ===2016: [http://www.tobaccopreventioncessation.com/A-Dollars-and-Sense-Exploration-of-r-nVape-Shop-Spending-and-E-cigarette-Use,67435,0,2.html A Dollars and “Sense” Exploration of Vape Shop Spending and E-cigarette Use]===
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 *Mod use and intention to use e-cigs as a cessation device were significantly associated with vape shop spending.
 *Customers who spent more than $50/month used lower levels of nicotine (mg/ml) (p=0.003) but a greater quantity of e-liquid (ml/month).
+===2015: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535370/ Counseling in Vape Shops: A Survey of Vape Shop Managers in Switzerland]===
+*Vape-shop managers explain how they successfully switched from smoking to vaping and help customers individually find the right combination of device, e-liquid flavor, and nicotine concentration.
+===2015: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25675943/ Biochemically verified smoking cessation and vaping beliefs among vape store customers]===
+*Among vapor store customers in the USA who use ENDS to stop smoking, vaping longer, using newer-generation devices and using non-tobacco and non-menthol flavored e-liquid appear to be associated with higher rates of smoking cessation.
+===2015: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/4/3428 Quit and Smoking Reduction Rates in Vape Shop Consumers: A Prospective 12-Month Survey]===
+*"Findings: Retention rate was elevated, with 69% of participants attending their final follow-up visit. At 12 month, 40.8% subjects could be classified as quitters, 25.4% as reducers and 33.8% as failures. Switching from standard refillables (initial choice) to more advanced devices (MODs) was observed in this study (from 8.5% at baseline to 18.4% at 12 month) as well as a trend in decreasing the e-liquid nicotine strength, with more participants adopting low nicotine strength (from 49.3% at baseline to 57.1% at 12 month). Conclusions: We have found that smokers purchasing e-cigarettes from vape shops with professional advice and support can achieve high success rates."
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 =Articles, Blogs, Op-Eds, etc=
+===2024: Article: [https://filtermag.org/vape-shop-veterans-va/ In My Vape Shop, I Learned How the VA Lets Veterans Down]===
+*Over the next two weeks, Bob brought in nine of his fellow vets to get my help to quit smoking. They called their vapes “puffing machines.” They’d thought they were too old to benefit from quitting smoking, but as the VA rightly told them, it is never too late. They were surprised to find themselves feeling better once they quit.
+**Source: Kim "Skip" Murray, ''Filter Magazine''
 ===2022: [https://medium.com/the-great-vape-debate/the-unrelenting-assault-on-vaping-is-taking-a-toll-803d3926dbee The unrelenting assault on vaping is taking a toll]===
+===2022: [https://filtermag.org/small-vape-shop-shut/ Popular Advocate Forced to Close Her Small-Town Vape Shop]===
-===2022: [https://filtermag.org/small-vape-shop-shut/ Popular Advocate Forced to Close Her Small-Town Vape Shop]===
+===2022: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/op-ed-celebrating-businesses-that-have-helped-reduce-the-tobacco-burden/article_51958b90-e1fa-11ec-91d0-4fc3f4df9720.html Op-Ed: Celebrating businesses that have helped reduce the tobacco burden]===
+===2022: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/op-ed-president-biden-should-use-small-business-week-to-save-lives/article_a2828028-cb28-11ec-a5dd-0f29a3850ddd.html Op-Ed: President Biden should use Small Business Week to save lives]===
-===2022: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/op-ed-celebrating-businesses-that-have-helped-reduce-the-tobacco-burden/article_51958b90-e1fa-11ec-91d0-4fc3f4df9720.html Op-Ed: Celebrating businesses that have helped reduce the tobacco burden]===
+===2021 (Op-Ed): [https://filtermag.org/vape-taxes-increase-smoking/ To Increase Smoking Rates Among Young Adults, Keep Hiking Vape Taxes]===
+*Of eight states that had e-cigarette taxes prior to 2019, seven saw an increase in proportions of young adult smokers after their state e-cigarette tax went into effect. California had a 34 percent increase in people aged 18-24 who smoked after the passage of an e-cigarette tax. Deleware's increase was 48.6 percent. Pennsylvania passed a 40% wholesale tax on vapor products, which closed 1/3 of the vape shops in that state and increased smoking in the 18-24 year old age group by 19 percent. Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota and West Virginia also say increases in smoking in young adults after passing taxes on vapor products.
+===2020: Article: [https://filtermag.org/native-american-reservations-new-york-vape-shops/ Native American Reservations a Haven for New York Vape Shops]===
+*New York State’s 20 percent excise tax on vapor products and nearly 9 percent sales tax also do not apply to the Shinnecock and other tribes. Essentially, Silva said, patrons can spend almost 30 percent less than they normally spend, and nobody has to worry about breaking the law.
-===2022: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/op-ed-president-biden-should-use-small-business-week-to-save-lives/article_a2828028-cb28-11ec-a5dd-0f29a3850ddd.html Op-Ed: President Biden should use Small Business Week to save lives]===
+===2017: Article: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/health/smokers-vaping-ecigarettes-elderly.html Some Older Smokers Turn to Vaping. That May Not Be a Bad Idea.]===
+*A retired secretary in her 70s, she’s often the oldest customer in the shop. Not that she cares. What matters is that after ignoring decades of   doctors’ warnings and smoking two packs a day, she hasn’t lit up a conventional cigarette in four years and four months...But while the proportion of Americans who smoke continues to decrease — down to 15.1 percent in 2015 — the decline has stalled among older adults.
+*[https://archive.is/EInlT Archived Link]
+**Source: Paula Span, ''The New York Times''
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